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Minutes from April 30 Meeting

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Radio club meeting 4-30-15

5 members in attendance:  Kirk Crawford, Don Hall, Ryan Noguchi, Jason Bayonne, and Teresa Moore

Antenna Test report:  Last week we set up the Crank IR and Buddipole antennas and got some experience with tuning them.  The Crank IR is pretty easy; the Buddipole has to be adjusted manually.  It took a while to figure out how to use the SWR meter in the trailer as it is not a design anyone was familiar with.  We heard a couple people on 20 and 15 meters, but the bands were not very active.  We did not make any contacts.  We plan to do another test on Wednesday, May 6.  Ryan volunteered to go to the D8 shack to see if he could hear us.

On May 19, the club will be manning a booth at the Aerospace Career Development Day.  Our plan is to set up the KX3 and the Buddipole and just see what we can hear, and talk to people about the club.  We have to be there between 11:30 and 1:30, and will probably have to be there early to set up.  We need volunteers to help with the booth.  You don’t have to stay the whole time.

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Don gave a report on the cross-band repeater project.  He has identified the Kenwood TMV71A 144/440 dual band radio as the best candidate.  The plan would be to mount it on a cart so it is portable and not necessarily tied to the trailer.  He will be doing more research on an antenna, portable mast, cart, and battery that can last at least 8 hours.  Next month he will have a list of parts/prices for us to consider.

Our ultimate goal is to be able to contact Colorado Springs and Chantilly from the trailer.  However, we’re not there yet.  As an interim measure, after Field Day we would like to set up a regular sched with the radio clubs at COS and Chantilly from the D8 shack.  If anyone wants to volunteer to lead that project, please contact Kirk.

Teresa

Field Day, Meeting, Shack

March 2015 Ham Radio Club Meeting

Ham Radio Club Meeting 3-26-15, held in A3/2226

MP3 File of the meeting:

Kirk did a slideshow presentation covering various topics, including the new D1 shack, the trailer, and planning for Field Day.

D1 shack:  the D1 shack is now operational, located in D1/640.  It’s on a bench in Teresa’s lab, so see her for access.  The antenna does not have as much range as the one on D8 as Kirk (who checks in on his way to work) cannot check in from as far away as he used to be able to.  We can try raising it a bit to see if that helps.
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Trailer progress:  The HF radio is now back after being sent out for repairs.  The plan is to check it out using the HF whip on the trailer.  The security and maintenance radio will be installed in the trailer soon.  We do need to spend some time in the trailer before Field Day so we can space the radios out as they are too close together for comfortable operation of both at once.  A redeployed monitor has been put in the trailer for the packet system.

Field Day planning:  Field Day is June 27-28 this year.  We will be in parking lot of V1 again this year as that worked out well last year.  We need to start thinking about what equipment we want to use.  It would be good to have a portable tower and antenna for each band being worked (2m, 220, 440, HF, packet).  People bringing personal radios should bring lots of coax.  Single sideband would be better than FM for VHF bands if we can find the equipment.  We need to find out what equipment we have available (Teresa will ask Joe about the HF antenna we bought last year) and start gathering and testing it.  One thing we need to be sure to bring is a portable SWR meter.  ACTION ITEM:  make sure we get wheels put on the generator.

Portable repeater project:  Don will look into a radio that has cross-band capability for the trailer.

Safety and Security day:  we need to keep this on our radar as we want to have a club presence this year.  We’re not sure of the date yet.

Meeting

September 2014 Meeting Minutes

September 25, 2014 AEA Amateur Radio Club Meeting Minutes

Seven people were in attendance:

  • Don Putnick NA6Z
  • Ed Warren K8RD
  • Ryan Noguchi AI6DO
  • Joe Barger N6KK
  • Don Hall KK6DCX
  • Teresa Moore AG6OD
  • Kirk Crawford KG6MTE

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Treasurers report: We should get $3500 for the coming fiscal year. We did purchase a number of items recently including portable tool sets but there is still a balance of several thousand dollars.

The AEA has said that our dues are too low and that we need to give Aerospace employees a price break on dues compared to other members. The current dues are $12/year. Kirk proposed to amend our bylaws to make the dues $18/year for Aerospace employees, $24/year for non-Aerospace employees, and $12/year for Aerospace retirees. Don Hall seconded. The motion passed.

Kirk will contact Jason to ask about the status of the repair of the HF radio in the trailer.

Don Hall reported that the Christmas party is set for Thursday, December 11 at the Proud Bird. It will be a buffet this year. We agreed on new rules for the holiday raffle. Usually $20 worth of raffle tickets are included in the yearly letter in hopes that people will buy them. We usually have about $300-$350 in ticket sales. We agreed that this year the total budget for the holiday raffle prizes would be $800 and the prizes would be gift certificates to the ham radio store of the winner’s choice in the amounts of $300, $200, $100, and 4X$50. The new rules will be that a single person is only allowed to win one prize. If you win a higher prize then you can choose which prize you want to keep and the other prize is returned to the pool for another drawing.

We again discussed the repeater project and came to the conclusion that the existing project would not really be feasible to put in the trailer as an emergency repeater. It is too big and bulky and requires too much expertise to get to an operational state. We will continue on that project as in the past, and it will stay in A8 and operate on the test pair. We will consider a new emergency portable repeater for the trailer, to be used on the emergency pair. The goal is to allow for communication across campus from the portable trailer assuming no access to any of the equipment in the ham shacks in the buildings and assuming that cell service is down. There was some discussion of a cross-band repeater, and pros and cons were discussed. Don Hall will do some research on modern repeaters and report in a later meeting.

We discussed a “bring a friend” type meeting and decided that it would be a good idea but we could only do it for a meeting where we had a solid presentation lined up that would showcase ham radio for people outside of the hobby.

The next meeting may include the APRS presentation by Bernie and/or the repeater report by Dave.

Meeting

August 2014 Meeting Minutes

August 28, 2014 AEA Amateur Radio Club Meeting Minutes

Five people were in attendance:

  • Kirk Crawford KG6MTE
  • Ed Warren
  • Teresa Moore AG6OD
  • David Ping
  • Han Lin

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The club budget was discussed. For FY15 we made a $4K request, including $3500 for equipment-related expenses. Other expenses include the Christmas party and raffle prizes. We spent $9783.77 on the D8 shack and emergency equipment in FY14. In the budget is money for 80/160 antennas for the D8 shack, an emergency generator, and an HF antenna for the A2 shack.

The California QSO party is the first weekend in October.

David Ping made a report on the state of the repeater project. He stated that it is a full rack of equipment weighing several hundred pounds and is not easily portable. Repeater is 220/440/2m and is crystal controlled (NOT frequency agile.) The triband Comet high-gain antenna is installed on the roof of A8. A controller can activate any of the three radios. About eight hours of work remain to get this repeater to full operation, including re-tuning cavities and doing some wiring. This repeater is set for the test pair (446.86 or .88?). David was hoping to get the repeater operational for demonstration at the September meeting. We will have to coordinate with facilities to get roof access.

Dave has been working on the antennas for the engineering models for AMSAT’s Fox-1 cubesat. A talk about this project would be welcome as a presentation at a future meeting.